- superlative of mere.
merest
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Before Lamarck, naturalists saw organisms as passive, depending on supernatural intervention for their merest actions as well as their very existence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
She reset to hold, then wrestled back the break, allowing herself the merest of smiles.
From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026
It’s a fig leaf so thin the merest whisper of a breeze wafts it away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
But Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is going out of his way to avoid even the merest whiff of complacency.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2024
And ocean salinity of course represented only the merest sliver of my ignorance.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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